George David Clark

Apartments

The hammers echo through the wall
as ghosts hang up their picture frames.

Our well-posed portraits tilt and fall:
the hammers’ echoes. No doubt their wall

remembers scenes they can’t recall,
like ours. They won’t forget, so claims

the hammer’s echo. Behind our walls
the ghosts hang empty picture frames.

George David Clark

is Assistant Professor of English at Washington & Jefferson College. His first book, Reveille (Arkansas, 2015), won the Miller Williams Prize, and more recent work can be found in Agni, Cincinnati Review, Gettysburg Review, Image, Third Coast, and elsewhere. He edits the journal 32 Poems and lives with his wife and their three young children in Washington, Pennsylvania.